I was out for a ride this afternoon and during a shift, the clutch cable broke up in the lever assembly. Nice thing about this bike that I noticed, is that you don't always have to use the clutch to shift. I noticed it downshifing once. Forgot to use the clutch and geared down by accident. It went in! Went into the next gear too.
That was usefull information to know when I was suddenly without a clutch on the way home. So shifting with proper rpms instead of clutch got me home and I just had to stall it when i stopped. Or I cpould have used the kill switch. Yea! That's what the clutch is for! LOL.
Anyway, these things always happen when the parts store is just closing, or you don't have any money till payday. So I looked at the clotch lever and found the end inside with the cable broken off right where it went in. I remember that the adjustment was pretty far out before so I though there might be enough cable to just re-install the end piece. After I dug it out of the handle, I saw that it was soldered! So, I took each wire at the end of the cable and sanded it t get all clean. Used torch to melt out the solder inside of the end piece. I believe they used regular rosin core solder but I had some silver solder so decided to use that.
So, after all clean, I loaded the wires of the cable with the flux and added some inside of the endpiece too. The twisted them all back as close as I could to where they were. Threaded the cable through, making sure the larger diameter was to the outside end. That fills up with solder to hold better. Proceeded to silver solder it, adding more flux as I went along until it was full of solder including the cable on the other side.
I oiled the crap of everything and put it together. Ah Ha! It works! Maybe the $20.00 price tag would scare some away from doing it this way, but in my case, I didn't want to wait for another cable AND, until I read the forum here, was afraid of what was at the other end and I remember that the bolts were really rusted in on that cover plate. So I've just saved some possible frustration. If anyone wants to try this, be sure you know how to solder. If it is a poor job, it won't hold.
Oh yea, I had to readjust the clutch play under the rubber plug too. That was easy.
Anyway, for what it's worth.